Paz de La Huerta Celebrates Her Nudity on a Sandy Beach

Paz de La Huerta gets back to nature the only way she knows how, by shedding her clothes and inhibitions for Playboy magazine. She’s on the cover of the upcoming double issue. And, frankly, she elevates the publication a notch.

The 28-year-old actress is best known as Lucy Danziger, the insanely–and insanely hot–girlfriend of Steve Buscemi’s mob character, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson on the HBO hit “Boardwalk Empire.”

She attended private Saint Ann’s School in the New York City, and counts fashion designer Zac Posen among her classmates.

She’s modeled for Posen and also posed for famed fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti, who lensed the Playboy shoot.

“We did the photos with no makeup, and we both wanted them to have a very natural feeling,” she tells the magazine. “It was more about bringing out a part of myself that has not really been shown to the public,” she says.

Paz de la Huerta Joyfully Nude

And how. The photo spread is one of the more artistically credible shoots in the magazine’s history.